On which I write about the books I read, science, science fiction, fantasy, and anything else that I want to. Currently trying to read and comment upon every novel that has won the Hugo and International Fantasy awards.

Saturday, April 26, 1975

Comments: In 1975, the SFWA changed the rules relating to Nebula Award nominations very slightly, limiting the number of finalists on the ballot to three in most categories. Starting in this year, a jury would select the three finalists from the preliminary ballot, and then the SFWA membership would vote on the overall winner. As a result, getting on the final ballot for the Nebula Awards in this year was almost as difficult as actually winning the award.

As to the awards themselves, Ursula K. Le Guin became the first author to win the Nebula Award for Best Novel twice with The Dispossessed, a brilliant book that is one of the many reasons I love her writing so much. Not only that, Le Guin also won the Best Short Story Nebula for The Day Before the Revolution, pulling off the impressive feat of winning two Nebulas in one year. Given his dominance of the 1970s thus far, it should come as no surprise that Robert Silverberg won the Best Novella Nebula for Born with the Dead. In fact, the only unusual Nebula winner this year was Woody Allen, who won for his screenplay for the movie Sleeper.

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